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Bill: Suplementary Tax Bill 2262
Details
Submitted by[?]: Páirtí Sóisialach
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2263
Description[?]:
| In conjunction with the income tax proposal and budget, this measure will work to streamline Telamon's finances. The Conservative Party seeks support on this issue. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 30
Current: 45
Proposed: 20
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 0
Current: 7
Proposed: 5
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 30
Current: 27
Proposed: 15
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:55:24, August 01, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Suplementary Tax Bill 2262 |
| Message | Why are you raising taxes on essential goods like bread and clothing, and lowering taxes on luxury goods? This is class elitism. You have declared war on the lower class. They will respond in turn. (That's a threat). |
| Date | 16:02:16, August 01, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Suplementary Tax Bill 2262 |
| Message | I am lowering an unreasonable GST and creating an insignificant sales tax. Take, for example, a pound of bananas. Say they cost $1,26. Bananas are not GST'd so they would only get a 5 per cent tax, so they would cost $1,32. Six pence is not unreasonable. Now we will look at our culinary friend, the vanilla bean: under the old system, a bottle of two vanilla beans costing $11,39 would have a 30 per cent GST. Thus it would cost $14,81. Under the new system, it would cost $13,75. Whilst I still think $11,39 is unreasonable for a vanilla bean, there is not much difference either way and I implore the Rt Hon. genlteman to have the sense to support this proposal. How have I declared war on the lower class when I have given them a virtually permanent tax holiday? Please reconsider. |
| Date | 01:30:05, August 02, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Suplementary Tax Bill 2262 |
| Message | The lower classes subsist only on goods that are essential. No tax should be placed to increase in any way the price of the bare essential products. However, luxury goods are not necessary, and are purchased relatively little considering this nation's extreme poverty. Adding a tax on them to make up for the lack of tax on essential goods is just and basic common sense. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 341 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 260 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Zardugal is a nation based on the old Byzantine Empire, with a modern twist and the Esperanto language. Zardugal is located on the continent of Majatra. |
| Random quote: "The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers |